Gypsy has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers, among them Ben Brantley (“what may be the greatest of all American musicals…”)[1]and Frank Rich.[2] Rich wrote that “Gypsy is nothing if not Broadway’s own brassy, unlikely answer to ‘King Lear.'”[3] Theater critic Clive Barnes wrote that “‘Gypsy’ is one of the best of musicals…” and described the character of Rose as “one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical….”[4]